Adding content to tabs

Hi,

If you follow the instructions of the FAQ, your modifications will be saved in an override view file.
So you won't loose them when you update but you also won't get the future improvements we'll make in that view file.

Now regarding your first question, I'm not sure but I would say you made a mistake.
Regarding the second question, I've actually updated the FAQ to mention this as it's been asked several times so I think it's worth mentioning in the FAQ:

And if you want to display dynamic content in the tab, you can create a custom field of the table "product" via the menu Display>Custom fields (Essential and Business editions only). Then, you'll be able to enter the text you want in the custom field when you're editing your product.
And instead of <!-- Your div content --> in the previous code, you can use:
<?php echo $this->element->XXX;?>
where XXX is to be replaced by the column name of the custom product field.

Hi,

I suppose yes.
I don't need a backend access for that.
What I need is:
- a link to the page with the issue
- a screenshot of the code you added in the view file.

Hi,

I checked your frontend but I can see two issues:
You use for example the id USE_ME_li in your first li tag. But it should be: hikashop_show_tabular_use_me_li

Also, you're missing completely the code:
<div class="hikashop_tabs_content" id="hikashop_show_tabular_use_me">
<?php echo $this->element->use_me; ?>
</div>
that you should put in the <ul class="hikashop_tabs_ul"> as explained in the FAQ.
That's because of these two things that the tabs don't work.

Hi,

- You should turn off the display setting of your custom fields if you don't want them to appear in the specifications tab, since you're displaying them yourself
- you still had incorrect ids in your divs as they had an extra _li at the end of the id. That's why the tabs were not working
- also, you have variants in your product, so you need extra code to get the data from the main product
- also, since you want to replace tags from content plugins, you need extra code to process the content tags
I've done the modifications for you with the access you provided. Please note however that this goes way beyond user support. That's custom development work. If you need our help for similar things in the future, we'll have to charge you for that.

Hi,

Yes, the code of the documentation would apply for products without variants and if you don't need content plugin replacement. We try to keep it simple for people not knowing much about code that's why the code in the FAQ doesn't handle edge cases.

Regarding the custom field deletion, it's not a bug. It's done on purpose so that if someone inadvertently delete the custom field, the data is not lost but still in the database. So you can always retrieve it by manually changing the namekey of the field in the hikashop_field table after creating a custom field with another column name.
And similarly, when you create a new custom field, we check that there isn't already a column with the name you want to use as it could break the system.

Thanks for the purchases !

Hi,

1. The thing is that in $this->element you have either: the data of the product if it has no variants, or the data of the default variant of the product.
So if you add the values you want in the custom fields of the default variant you could indeed always use $this->element.

2. No, it's not the column name of the field in the hikashop_product table that you need to change. It's the value of the field_namekey column for the custom field in the table hikashop_field that you need to change.

Sure.
You can add a condition around the li. That should be before:

<?php if(!empty($this->element->XXX)) { ?> 

<?php } ?> 

Hi,

Your code will display the "VIDEO" tab only if there is something in the custom field "video" of the main product.
I don't see why this wouldn't work.
I guess there is something you're not telling me about the situation. Like you actually want the tab to appear because you display several fields in that tab ?
In that case, you should add the check around the display of the custom field, and not around the tab title.
And around the tab title, you would need a more complex check to display the tab if at least one field is set.

Hi,

Well, in that case, either your code is wrong, or the field is not empty for the product you're looking at.
Note that if you use a custom field of the type WYSIWYG, it's possible that your HTML editor adds extra HTML tags, even if you didn't enter anything in the field.
So try to check the type to "textarea" to see if that's the case. If so, it explains why you see the tab even though you believe it's empty.